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Nothing to Write Home About
British Family Correspondence and the Settler Colonial Everyday in British Columbia
The first substantial study of family correspondence and settler colonialism, Nothing to Write Home About elucidates the significance of trans-imperial intimacy, epistolary silence, and the everyday in laying the foundations of settler colonialism in British Columbia.
2020, Commended - The Wilson Book Prize, McMaster University
- Copyright year: 2019
Assembling Unity
Indigenous Politics, Gender, and the Union of BC Indian Chiefs
Assembling Unity traces the history of pan-Indigenous unity in British Columbia through political negotiations, gendered activism, and the balance and exercise of power.
2020, Commended - Best Scholarly Book in Canadian History, Canadian Historical Association
2020, Winner - Indigenous History Book Prize, Canadian Historical Association
- Copyright year: 2019
Levelling the Lake
Transboundary Resource Management in the Lake of the Woods Watershed
It’s one thing to live in a watershed. We all do. It’s another to manage one, as Levelling the Lake compellingly demonstrates.
2020, Winner - Albert Corey Prize, Canadian Historical Association
2021, Winner - Fred Landon Award, Ontario Historical Society
- Copyright year: 2019
Delivering Policy
The Contested Politics of Assisted Reproductive Technologies in Canada
Delivering Policy explores how the tension between science and politics shaped the long and fraught path to Canada’s Assisted Human Reproduction Act.
2020, Shortlisted - Donald Smiley Prize, Canadian Political Science Association
- Copyright year: 2019
Truth and Conviction
Donald Marshall Jr. and the Mi’kmaw Quest for Justice
A passionate account of how one man’s fight against racism and injustice transformed the criminal justice system and galvanized the Mi’kmaw Nation’s struggle for self-determination, forever changing the landscape of Indigenous rights in Canada and around the world.
2020, Winner - Atlantic Book Awards, Atlantic Book Awards and Festival
- Copyright year: 2018
Made Modern
Science and Technology in Canadian History
The first major collection of its kind in thirty years, Made Modern explores the role of science and technology in shaping Canadians’ experience of themselves and their place in the modern world.
2019, Commended -
Best Edited Collection, Canadian Studies Network
- Copyright year: 2019